DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.gigaspaces.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2016

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, event driven architecture

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Role-based access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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